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Friday, 30 May 2014

In rooms 4 and 3 we did a thing called kids Cafe Day. This is where people make movies and learn how to do things by watching them. I did one it was how to care for puppies. To know more about Kids Cafe go to their blog. http://kidscafenz.blogspot.co.nz/

Monday, 26 May 2014

Take a look at this 'Mad Scientist' time lapse movie from lots of NZ schools last year.

Which of our experiments grabbed your attention?
What questions or wonderings do you have?
What more do you want to find out about?
Write your ideas and questions on the Padlet at the bottom of the page.

Sunday, 25 May 2014

Challenges:
What do the people in your team want to learn?
How are you going to negotiate your choices so that you all have a fun learning time on our Kids Cafe Day?

Use the team selection sheet to list your choices and check what materials you will need to bring. You might have to nook in a device with Minecraft PE. It is all about being flexible and compromising so we all have a great time learning.
Don't forget to assign people to bring the materials and get ready for a whole lot of AKO Kids!

Monday, 12 May 2014

After a serious discussion about home learning being boring - Waka Endeavour students offered me a solution. We want to do science experiments! So here they are!

I have selected eight 'easy to do at home' experiments that you could try together. If you have other ones you'd like to try, then please go for it but provide a copy of the experiment and record your observations on the sheet provided.

We would love the experiments to be shared on Mondays and hope that one could be completed most weeks.

This experiment option sheet, along with their first choice of experiment and recording sheet will be coming home today. Have fun being scientists together.

This is my avatar. I am underwater eating fish and catching fish. I have crab arms, fluffy ears and a big turtle shell, octopus feet, crocodile tail and shark teeth and a plait for my hair. I am under water.

Fern's PuppiesThe day Fern had her puppies was a nice and sunny day. I was going to friend Lily's house when Lucy, Lily's mum, got a call from Dad that Fern had had two puppies. We had to turn and go back to my house. I was so excited. When we got there Dad said that Fern had had her puppies in my tree hut. The puppies felt warm, wet and fragile. One hour went by then I saw a see-through blue bubble and I could see the shape of a puppy. A few more hours went by and we had seven puppies. Dad had to get up in the middle of the night and help the runt drink from Fern properly. If he hadn't helped the puppy she would have died.Three weeks went by and every puppy had their name. The runt is called Skinny Malink and the others are called Brownie McGee, Young Drumble, Nike, Stripes, Tui, and Harry Potter. I am enjoying having puppies. Fern and the family will deeply miss them when they go.

Sunday, 4 May 2014

This is a great way to build your vocabulary at the same time as giving rice to the hungry.
Work your way through the words. Remember to write any extra special or 'magical words' in your own personal dictionary.

Last term we learned how to work as a team. We know how to choose good targets and have worked towards achieving them. In the last week of term, we took a risk and ran KidsAKO workshops for Rooms 3 & 8. It was MAGIC! You can do anything.

I am thinking we are ready to do something even more amazing. I wonder what it could be....

What's up for this term:

Writing - instructions, explanations & movie / workshop scripts

Reading - heaps of information books and even more books of your own choice

Check this out Team. We have the chance to run workshops for children from all over the WORLD! It is called Kids Cafe.

We sign up and you decide on something you would love to make a workshop on. You would need to plan and record it so it could be put 'on-line' for all the other kids to access. Then we would have a Kids Cafe session and learn lots from each other!

Check out the links and start thinking about what you could teach people!
The twitter and blog links are in our Favourite Blog list!

Write a note on the Padlet to share what ideas you have for a Kids Cafe workshop.

Yippee - Alice and I taught the teachers about Daily 5 today. They loved the photos and videos you took last term and looked at all the resources you use and your 'Wild Reader's Notebooks'.

I am sure that we will have lots of teachers visiting our class to see what Daily 5 looks like in real life! They are all really excited and want to try it with their own classes. Well done team - Daily 5 rocks!